Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3ed6faff7893b03f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.4 KB Created: OKz31HVQf
MD5: 9bcd5fb1c94cc9b53056308dc9602460 SHA-1: cefdf9a88454a15ca65f6fa34a9286f4c4612a30 SHA-256: 3ed6faff7893b03f7b406a4baa8f4b12919d7a0e5f5b9438e5dd7d9ddf365011
68 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier as malicious with a high confidence score. Static analysis identified an embedded script payload within a PDF stream, which is a common technique for delivering secondary malware. The embedded artifact 'embedded_file_obj0011.bin' is likely the payload. The exact nature of the script's execution is not fully detailed due to obfuscation, but its presence strongly suggests a download and execution attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 4

  • Embedded script payload in PDF stream medium PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD
    PDF stream bytes contain an HTML/XFA <script> tag without accompanying Windows shell-execution primitives — common in accessible XFA forms but worth surfacing for analyst review.
  • Embedded file low PDF_EMBEDDED
    PDF embeds a file attachment — could carry an executable or another weaponised document as a nested payload
  • XFA form low PDF_XFA
    PDF uses XML Forms Architecture — can contain script logic
  • Suspicious extracted artifact info EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE
    One or more files extracted from inside this sample matched static suspicious-content checks such as script obfuscation, encoded payload blobs, packed data, or execution/download terms.

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0011.bin
3a84744bf92c8f74397214185a580902c206b5ffb312009b2384277331a7a42c
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x9B0 18536 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).